More Than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law

by Donald Alexander Downs

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In More Than Victims, Donald Downs offers a sympathetic and powerful analysis of the problems attending the use of battered-woman syndrome as a legal defense, ultimately revealing how the syndrome's logic actually harms those it is trying to protect. A persuasive account of how constitutional freedom and individual justice can be threatened by current legal standards, this thorough yet accessible work presents a dramatic rethinking of the criminal...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226161595

ISBN13:9780226161594

Release Date:December 1996

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:317 Pages

Weight:1.32 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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